The student café is an option for students at Bachelor’s level in Computer Science to drop in and work with assignments and projects. Teachers and student teachers are available for assistance in the café.
Every day during term time, teachers and student teachers are present in the student café, ready to help study groups and individual students with theoretical and practical tasks and reports in preparation for the ordinary lectures and teaching sessions. The student café is a space in which students should be able to speak freely about academic and study-related subjects with their fellow students, student teachers or teachers. The café is also an initiative intended to curb drop-outs by strengthening the students’ academic and social integration in the learning environment.
The student café is staffed by teachers and student teachers from courses offered in the semester in question. Certain time slots in the café are allocated for students from different levels of study, and the number of teachers and student teachers present will be higher for younger than for older year groups.
The following must be considered:
The outcome of the activity is that students become better prepared for studying, and hopefully the activity will contribute to student well-being in the learning environment.
This example of practice is developed in connection to "Projekt 1. studieår", where initiatives for retention at the faculty of arts at Aarhus University was mapped.